Keely’s specialty includes representing owners, borrowers, and developers with the acquisition, sales, development, and financing of multifamily properties, as well as obtaining government subsidies for energy efficient and green multifamily buildings.
Keely’s practice also includes commercial real estate acquisition, sales, development, financing, and leasing of retail, industrial, and mixed-use properties. She routinely advises real estate brokers and agents regarding regulatory compliance issues.
As a HUD specialist, Keely has significant experience guiding borrowers through the HUD financing process including new construction, acquisition financing, and refinancing, as well as the HUD loan assumption (TPA) process.
Counsel on a HUD transaction typically includes the following tasks:
Obtaining HUD-insured financing can be a complicated, expensive and lengthy process. Keely uses her depth in the HUD financing field to help her clients avoid costly delays, strategically time their steps, and move through the process as quickly as possible.
Experience counts: the right answer on a HUD lending question may not necessarily be the answer found in the published administrative regulations and guidelines. The solution often involves knowing how a field office typically reacts to a given issue. In this arena, advanced planning can save time and money. Understanding the regulatory landscape up front will help to structure your ownership entity, and structure your project, to achieve the best outcome.
Keely’s practice includes market-rate properties, as well as affordable/subsidized properties, and senior projects. Keely helps her clients to navigate the sale, acquisition and refinancing process for affordable properties with multiple layers of subsidies.